Marshfield OfficeMax to close in May in latest blow to retail shopping

MARSHFIELD - The community is bracing to lose another major retailer this year.

OfficeMax plans to close its Marshfield store, 1629 N. Central Ave., by mid-May, according to a store employee. Shera Bishop, a communications specialist for the company, also confirmed to a USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin reporter that the store would close its doors May 18, after almost 20 years in Marshfield. The store opened in September 1999.

Since a 2013 merger, OfficeMax has been a subsidiary of Office Depot Inc., a Florida-based company operating Office Depot stores. Bishop said the company is working to optimize its retail footprint as part of a three-year plan announced in August 2016.

The office supply chain is the latest in a string of recent big-box store closings in the area. Shopko announced this week that it would close all of its stores nationwide by June. Younkers said in April that it would close its store in the Marshfield Mall along with 250 other locations after its parent company Bon-Ton Stores Inc. announced bankruptcy. J.C. Penney closed its store in the mall in 2017.